JOHANNESBURG - Adolescent vaping is surging, with 15 million teenagers now using e-cigarettes.
This is nine times more than adults in some countries.
These worrying figures are contained in the latest World Health Organisation (WHO)Tobacco report.
And while global tobacco use has dropped from 1.38 billion in 2000, to 1.2 billion in 2024, one in five adults still smokes.
WHO is calling for stronger, faster government action to curb the trend.
- To unpack that report we are joined by Professor Lekan Ayo-Yusuf, head of the School of Health Systems and Public Health at the University of Pretoria.